Business & Tech
BK Group Injects More Money in Basketball Tournament
The Bank of Kigali (BK) Group – Rwanda’s biggest Institution in terms of assets added more money in the second year sponsorship deal with the Rwanda Basketball Federation…
Government Privatises the Struggling Burera Dairy
Rwanda government has finally sold off its shares amounting to 98.3% in the Burera dairy ending a five year of the factory management shortfalls. According to a communiqué from…
Connect Rwanda Challenge: RDB Hands Over Smartphones to Park Rangers
Rwanda Development Board (RDB) has become the first institution to honour its pledge of the connect Rwanda challenge by handing over 700 Smartphones to Park rangers. The connect Rwanda challenge…
How Costly is Rwanda’s Electricity? RURA to Release New Tariffs
Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) will this afternoon announce new electricity tariffs – with expectations getting high over a possible downward move. The current electricity tariffs used were announced in August…
Rwanda: First Pharmaceutical Plant to start Production in July
The much anticipated antibiotics pharmaceutical plant in Rwanda will start production in July this year, officials told KT Press. In 2017, Cooper Pharma East Africa plant by Cooper Pharma –…
Rwanda Domain Name (dotRw) Now Accessible on a Click
Rwanda has made a record of having fully automated the process of registration for its country domain name (dotRw) – becoming the sixth country in Africa to do so. Effective this…
No Cause for Alarm – Rwandair Explains Tel Aviv Incident
The national carrier Rwandair has dismissed reports of an engine fire on one of its planes in Tel Aviv, Israel on Wednesday, saying that it was a tailpipe fire –a…
Local Investors Take 19% Share of $2.46Bn Investments Made in 2019
Rwanda has released figures for investments registered in the country last year, which shows local investors still have a long way to increase the pace in an economy that is…
Rwanda’s Central Bank Issues First T-Bond of 2020
With the economy showing good signs, Rwanda Government through Central Bank has returned to the market with the reopening of Rwf15 billion Treasury bond. The bond, which will be rediscounted…
What Has MICE Got for Rwanda in 2020?
Kigali city was last year ranked Africa’s 2nd most popular conference destination by International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) based on the number of association meetings taking place regularly…
10 Projects to Watch in 2020
For the past three or four years, Rwanda has been announcing mega projects year-in year-out. Many have been witnessed as groundbreaking, with a lengthy completion period. Others are…
Rwanda Raises Penalties Against Money Laundering, Financing Terrorism
Rwanda has increased penalties for anyone nabbed in an act of money laundering, financing acts of terrorism, from between seven to ten years, to more than two decades in jail…
